Welcome to 2013 :)

Happy New Year!
Wow- has it really been a year since the start of 2012?
Time does fly!
Maybe I'll do a post about 2012 happenings.

Life has been busy, busy, BUSY!
I've been booking almost every free minute I can find,
But it's good to just sit and breathe now and then!

I havent made any New Years Resoltions yet.

We haven't gotten much snow this winter.
But while looking at the little bit we got, I was walking home the other day thinking about how it reminded me of a whole bunch of white dandilion blossoms blown all over the grass, nearly covering it!

It was a nice dream.


Random thoughts:
Isn't it a comfort to know that God has a plan for your life, and they're GOOD plans! :)
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Remember: God didn't promise that things wouldn't be complicated or hard.
But he promises to be with us through it all. We just gotta trust him.

In other news-
My deary sister just turned 17 in December!

Love ya Em.<3

I had a good Christmas. I hope you did too!
We had family over and had a fun time of catching up, enjoying delicious food, and playing games.

(Apples to Apples)

 

I'd love to tell you more about the holiday season happenings- but since it's getting late, I'll save it for another time!

Feliz Navidad, y Happy New Year!

Sinceramente,
~~
ISA

 

 



Of Recently

It's been nearly 2 months since I updated my blog!
Time sure fly's when your busy! (and when you're having fun! ;)
So whats new with me?
Well, not much really. 
I've still been doing a bit of cooking/baking :)


FUDGE
It's just that time of year.
As of recently, I tried a recipe I found for Microwave Fudge.

 

What can I say? I wanted a quick dessert!

The Recipe(from allrecipes):
Ingredients

Makes servings USMetricAdjust Recipe (Help)

• 4 cupsconfectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cupunsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 cupmilk
• 1/2 cupbutter
• 2 teaspoonsvanilla extract

Directions

1. Grease a 9x9 inch dish.
2. In a microwave safe bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and cocoa. Pour milk over mixture and place butter in bowl. Do not mix. Microwave until butter is melted, 2 minutes. Stir in vanilla and stir vigorously until smooth. Pour into prepared dish.
3. Chill in freezer 10 minutes before cutting into squares

It tasted good, although it was a little too thin... it would make a good thick frosting for brownies!
I found a different microwave fudge recipe that looks more promising. Maybe I'll try that one next! ;)




THANKSGIVING
We had thanksgiving at my Aunts house!
Yay for family gatherings!
We had quite the feast!  :)
And a great evening of "Wedding movies"!
Two of my cousins got married this past year, so we decided to watch the recording of the weddings with the fam!! It was great- what a special thanksgiving!
After dinner, I went home with extended fam so we could do a little Black Friday shopping!
My cousin and I had some great catching up time! We stayed up till close to midnight, then she, my aunt and I headed out to shop! By the time we got back... yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn!
Friday mid-morning we made sweedish pancakes (see below).

 

After breakfast, I ended up spending the day with them.  We had so much fun including: played settlers, went out for coffee and hung out until a parade in the evening. That was one COLD parade!




FONDUE
The first week of December, my friend Katie and I hosted a Fondue party for the girls from our church.

I prepared the cheese sauce.
Katie shared the idea of adding grape juice to the sauce! MMM!
The white grape juice gave cheese sauce a great flavor!
And for that matter, everything was delicious!
We had chocolate sauce, marshmallow sauce, white punch, and food galore!
Between games, dinner, Christmas lights, visiting, and a gift exchange, it was a wonderful afternoon!
I'm so thankful for Katie's efforts to organize this with me, and for all the guests/mom who helped out!


So there you have it: a sum up of some events from the past couple months.
The remainder of this month promises to be busy, busy, busy!

But it's ok, I like it that way! :)

Keep warm!

Sinceramente,
ISA

Re: Photog Challenge

Hello my friends,

This blog has, once again, reached a stand-still in the photography challenge.
This may be attributed to the fact that I'm currently feeling tired/xP, and that mostly every day has been a busy one.  Business and creativity don't seem to get along well.
I hope to return to posting pictures very soon.
Until then,

Buenas tardes!

y Vaya con Dios!

Tuyo fielmente,

~~
ISA

Happy Re-union

Today was a special day.

We welcomed family members back home after a long trip!

As a warm welcome home, my sister wanted to bake pie.

We settled on pumkin bread :)

 



 

 

Shortly after arrival, they shared the food they had brought home.

Among this food was:

 

Cider!
Fresh/sweet cider.
This jug 'o juice traveled hundreds of miles to get here! :)

It's good to be back together.
Praise the Lord for safe travels and protection.

Good evening, all!

Buenas noches.

Y ahora, el fin de semana ha empezado!!

~~
ISA

Shadows

It's time again for: Photography Challenge of The Day!!

Today's picture is symbolic.
The challenge for today was "Silhouette".
My subject was a fast food drink cup.
After drinking mountain dew AND dr. pepper (in addition to my morning coffee), I would call myself one very-caffinated girl.
Believe me, if you saw me/heard me yacking my head off earlier, you would agree.
Anyways, my thought process behind today's picture is this:
The silhouette of the drink cup is like the shadow of a person we may become if we go buzzerk on our intake of fast food/junk food.
Or maybe... (this is an epiphany just coming to me now)... in the same way, the silhouette is like the shallow shadow of a person we might become if we let God's word become the minor part of what we feed our minds/souls with, and all the other meaningless junk of this world be our meat/bread/substance. 
Something to think about!
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Day 15: << Silhouette >>

 

 

~~

ISA

*Blink*

Today's challenge was "eyes".
Aren't you so thankful for eyes??
Think of all the stuff we wouldn't be able to see if we didn't have eyes!
And think of how different our faces would look without eyes!
Scary!!
Of course... if we didn't have eyes... we wouldn't be able to see our faces anyways!
Alrighty, moving right along.
After much begging, I finally convinced a friendly shark from a local aquatic habitat to pose for today's challenge. (see picture below)
Isn't he great?!
Shout out to my sharkey friend: Thanks dude!!!
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Day 14: << Eyes >>

 

 

~~

ISA 

Simple Foods

We've been making lots of basic food of late.
Basic meaning: no dairy products (including cream sauces, butter, cheese, etc), no corn products (including corn syrup, corn starch, etc), no gluten (including wheat, etc.)...

Anyways,
Tonight was Zucchini and Chicken!!

It's really easy!
 

Zucchini:

Slice zucchini.

Fry it with salt, pepper, and oil. 

 

 

  Chicken:

Defrost.

Fry it with garlic, ginger, salt, and oil.

 

That's all there is too it!
Pretty simple, huh?

Buenas noches, seguidores fieles!

~~
ISA